Project makes emergency pill more available

Male birth control pill ? Available?

Finally, a male birth control pill, right? Unfortunately, not just yet. There are several methods of "male-directed" contraception being developed and tested in trials; however, none are currently available to the general public. Clinical trials are underway and men surveyed in countries throughout the world have expressed their interest in male-directed contraception. The road is being paved, ...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Plan B : Emergency Contraceptive Pill

Plan B is a progestin [4]-only emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) that can be taken within seventy-two hours of unprotected sex in order to prevent an unwanted pregnancy [5]. Plan B was created in response to the United States Food and Drug Administration?s (US FDA) 1997 request for new drug applications (NDAs) for a dedicated ECP product, and was approved for sales in the US in 1999. Duramed, ...

The Emergency Contraceptive Pill – a Second Chance

Moonlight Makes Owls More Chatty

BACKGROUND Lunar cycles seem to affect many of the rhythms, temporal patterns and behaviors of living things on Earth. Ambient light is known to affect visual communication in animals, with the conspicuousness of visual signals being largely determined by the light available for reflection by the sender. Although most previous studies in this context have focused on diurnal light, moonlight sho...